The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-04
THE DAILY NEWS
MISSING TOURISTS.
"Stephem's so Deceivin' That no
Human Can Believe Him."
Fiorida's Enemy Answered out Of His Own Mouth
The Times-union Quoted against Itself.
Jacksonville Herald.


The Herald has no desire for news
paper controversy over our winter tour
lists, and, so far from a wish to antago-
nize statement, simply because bust
ness contemporary has made 1T, the rec
ord of this journal will show that we are
willing at all times to work in harmony
with any force or any influence that acts
for the good of Floritl la. whether that in
fiuence be friendly or hostile toour IN
dividual interests. And for ourselves,
we have long since disapproved both
from principle and policy the habit of
exaggeration and misrepresentation in
the effort to benefit and boom the State.
With this reasonable exordium let the
Herald say that the journalistic Bear of
our tourist market, has exhausted the
capacity of brass-mOunted, copper-toed
and deliberate misrepresentation in the
two-column article published under
glowing headlines in the Times Union
of Sunday.
In order to carry his point. and to jus
tify an untruthful and damaging asser-
ton, he is willing to stab the State, and,
in delivering the blow, he cuts through
the truth. and the facts. and his own as
sertions, and confronting evidence of
his misrepresentation.
Figures are the George Washington Of
argument, and il is said and believed
that Figures cannot lie" But this man
rather than give in, to truth and his
States good, Is willing to prevent fig
ures to falsehoood, and to- make an An
nanias of fact.
Let us consider the matter.
In Sundays Times Union there are
two columns of plausibly tabulated fig
ures, and sophisticGlly elaborated state
ments, whose result is announced in
glowing headlines as a proof of the
Times Unions damaging article of the
early winter, and is summed up in the
assertion that the arrivals of the pres
eat season are niue thousand. seren huR-
tired and fifty less than those Of last
season.
If is notifying to humanity to con-
slider the unfair and untruthful method
by which this damaging estimate is OBJ
tanned and published to the hurt of Flor
ida. The arrivals of one hundred and
forty-eight hotels are asserted as the ele-
ments of this computation. Let us ex-
anime the statement, and mark you,
all our estimates of last years arrivals,
are taken from Jones own tabulated
statement published in the T.-U. of
1886.
Take st. AUGUSTINE. In this greatest
of our Florida resorts, he has the UNI
scrupulous audacity to leave out alto
gether such leading houses as the Magno-
liza and the st. Augustine hotels, as also
the Casa Monica and the st. George
whose combined registers, at the lowest
computation, will foot up more than
5000 arrivals, or enough in themselves to
make up his alleged deficiency!
Take Palatkas In Jones estimate
we find not the faintest mention of the
Putnam House, the Saratoga and the
Carleton, whose arrivals by Jones table
of last year, footed up over t,ceire thOus
and. The Putnam this year has haG
1000 arrivals against $500 last year.
Take Orlando. Jones ignores it as
completely as if the Phenomenal City
had been transferred to the West In
dies, and yet Jones last years table, rec
orded IA, 7S9 drrirdIs for Orlando, and il
is u notorious fact that Orlando has done
better this year than ever before i'm it,
history.
Take Sanford. Last year Jones gave
it IA, 726 arrivals. This year he doesn't
mention Sanford.
Take Green Cove Spring Last year
its arrivals were given 1850 This yeai
Jones leaves out the Clarendon, the St
Clair, the Magnolia and Riverside.
Take Enterprise. Last year the Brock
House was given 1000 arrivals. This
year it is given nothing.
Take Winter Park. Last year 1866
This year the Seminole is ignored and
il is given nothing.
Take Tallahassee-the very capital of
the State. The Leon and its other fine
hotels are ignored
Take Tampa. This has been really
great season for Tampa Mr.. NJ. p.
Courser, proprietor of the Plant Hotel in
that city, and also for the Lake View
House at Sunapee Lake. N. H., was in
terviewed by HerGider this morning.
and expressed his sense of the injustice
done Tampa in the Times Unions esti-
mate. He gives the arrivals of the
Plant House at $685. and the arrivals at
the other houses Mt 3.521, or 1.037 as the
total register. The Times Union last
year gave Tampa 3,02e.
The splendid Magnolia, on the ST.
Johns, and the Hibernia Hotel are omit
ted from the T-U.'s estimate.
The Times Unions estimate also to-
tally ignores Murray Hall, at Pablo. Fort
George Hotel, the hotels of Cedar Key.
New Smyrna, DeIand. Tavares and
Crescent City. tthe last perhaps through
personal spite.)
Now let Us foot up according to last
years table. the principal omissions from
this shameless estimate: